A Heuristic Algorithm to Find a Path to be Blocked by Minimizing Traffic Disruption

This paper discusses the problem of finding a path to be blocked from the source to the destination for a vehicle to pass by in such a way that the traffic disruption caused is minimum. The traffic disruption caused by blocking a path is measured by estimating the number of vehicles that would have crossed any of the vertices in the path if the path had not been blocked. It also presents a heuristic algorithm “Aggregate Traffic Minimization” (ATM) to solve the above problem. The traffic disruption caused by the path chosen by the ATM algorithm was compared with that of a popular baseline algorithm and was found that ATM outperforms the baseline alzorithm in most cases.